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Ezekiel (Zeke) Hooper

Ezekiel (Zeke) Hooper is an independent researcher and consultant interested in how technology reshapes human behavior. A graduate of Middlebury College, where he studied economics and mathematics, his work sits at the intersection of applied economics and the social effects of technological adoption.
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America’s Most Effective Birth Control Wasn’t a Policy. It Was a Phone.

Ezekiel (Zeke) Hooper
In new research, Cailtin K. Myers and Ezekiel Hooper find that birth rates in the United States have declined as a result of the introduction of the iPhone. They theorize that the smartphone is crowding out the market for attention, offering a device to fill users’ time that replaces forming in-person relationships that typically create children. 

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